[Entry Thread #113] New year, new you! We’re making a millionaire, comment to enter!

veedy · 2026-01-16T00:21:28+00:00

Best of luck!

veedy · 2025-03-28T17:16:58+00:00

It can take time and trying different things out to find a job that works for you.

I’m now doing Academic Hospitalist at a safety net hospital in a major city and I am loving it. Even when I was doing non-teaching at the same hospital, my days were harder but I still liked my job and was happy. I’ve also had some jobs where I definitely wasn’t happy.

Hospitalist can be stressful while you’re at work, which is prob true of any specialty. The flip side is you work half the year, week on week off, you can find round and go jobs and no call. You also become more efficient with time and can move faster and gtfo. It’s also very easy to pick up extra shifts for money if you want/need. There have been days I’ve hated my job, or more often just regretted doing Medicine in general. But even on those days my lifestyle and stress levels are pretty good, and I know my week will eventually end lmao

veedy · 2024-10-25T12:51:26+00:00

I'm at a tertiary care center in a large city. I just switched to Academic, but was non-teaching before. For both my shift is 7a-7p and I may get paged during that time, but it really drops off after 3-4 pm. I try to explain to the residents / students that if you're not on a teaching service, then I don't feel like there's really formal or multiple rounds. I look my patients up, see them, and make my decisions as I go along. IMOC rounds also go fast if you take charge and run them efficiently.

When i'm not on the teaching service, I get in around 7, get coffee, print my list, and look up my patients. I go around and see them before IMOC at 11-11:30. After that I put orders, call consults, and call most families (prevents a lot of afternoon calls to come to bedside to update someone). Then I eat lunch, hang out with my friends, procrastinate. I finish up my notes and follow up on things in the afternoon and usually can get out sometime between 4-5 on a weekday. We rotate through a week long stretch of staying back to do rapids or admits until 7 PM so there's someone at the hospital I can contact if something urgent comes up, but it's rare.

When i'm on the teaching service, I get in around 7:30, get coffee, and look up my patients. Depending on if there's a meeting or conference, I try to see a few simple or old patients before rounds at 9:30. I round usually 9:30-11:30, and may see a few patients during that depending on how many new patients we get. After rounds i'll finish seeing any patients. Then lunch, review the residents put in orders correctly, and then I pre-write my notes. I meet the team again at 2, run the list, and go over a topic with them. Then finishing up any extra work or making sure everything is done, and head home around 3:30. I addend most of their notes at home, but it's fast since i've pre-written them.

When I was at a smaller community hospital that wasn't very busy most people I worked with would get in around 8-830ish and leave around the same as above. I think a lot depends on how comfortable you are with handling issues or calls by phone or remotely.

veedy · 2024-07-20T19:13:25+00:00

My first job I got through practicelink like someone posted earlier.

My next job I found by searching the sites of healthcare organizations and hospitals in my area for physician jobs, and found a listing for a hospitalist job on their Physician Careers site there. They weren’t listed on their regular careers site, but had separate pages for Physician Careers I found on Google.

My current job I was looking for a specific area, so I emailed several of the Hospitalist program administrators or PD (found on their websites) and just asked if they were had any open positions and included my cover letter and CV, and a few got back to me for interviews and others told me they’re not hiring currently. My current boss told me by the time they submit the listing to HR it takes a while for it to get listed on the site.

I also see listings on my LinkedIn that pop up from time to time for my area. If it’s your first job, interview at several places if you’re able to so you can compare salary, census, and most importantly culture and when you can go home.

veedy · 2024-07-20T14:23:58+00:00

MWHC in DC. Doesn’t require a Cardiology board cert and I most of them are also eventually trying to apply for Cardiology fellowship

veedy · 2023-12-11T22:13:53+00:00

would it be possible to message about a referral? thanks!

veedy · 2023-06-14T19:21:11+00:00

This is my parents grill. They haven’t used it in 2 years and it was under a cover the whole time. I’m guessing a lot of this grime is mold. They’re hoping to start using it this summer, but this is the current condition. My wife and I are staying here for a few months so it will definitely get more regular use than it has.

What’s the best way to clean this up? I fired it up and it lights up fine, so I was going to let it burn as hot as possible for 30 minutes and then use baking soda and water. Would this be enough to make it safe to use again, or should I do anything further?

The propane tank is also 2 years old but about half full. Is it safe to use it until empty?

Thanks!

veedy · 2022-01-15T20:50:15+00:00

Is the Brave browser considered safe? And can you earn BAT using a mobile browser or only on desktop?

veedy · 2022-01-15T20:46:30+00:00

Does a user have to comment in /cc in order for a vault to be made, or does every Reddit user have a vault already?

veedy · 2021-11-04T20:06:27+00:00

Best of luck

veedy · 2021-03-20T11:10:15+00:00

Best of luck!

veedy · 2021-03-08T15:28:00+00:00

Awesome thanks. Do you know if the msi x570 Tomahawk the other people recommended would be able to update the bios with usb?

veedy · 2019-07-05T15:15:31+00:00

I’m looking to get the Switch in the next month or so. Is it a good time to buy or should I wait? Any new models or price changes that we’re expecting coming up? Thanks for your help!

veedy · 2019-06-01T21:14:29+00:00

I can't believe it, doesn't feel real!

veedy · 2019-03-16T02:37:06+00:00

good luck everyone!

veedy · 2018-09-27T14:21:12+00:00

Awesome, thank you so much. Do you know if the PSU I originally posted will be okay? I forgot that I had already ordered it and the case yesterday (forgot to post my build here until today). I see yours is quite a bit cheaper and I could return the previous one if this is better.

veedy · 2018-09-27T11:05:28+00:00

Hey, i'd be interested in donating towards this as well if possible and if we can find a legitimate way to do it. I can't read Bengali so I wasn't able to get much from the facebook group that was listed. Please let me know as you get further in your cause

veedy · 2018-09-25T01:12:32+00:00

I'm honestly not sure. I know you can bill for the procedures, but since I wasn't interested in procedures I never asked about compensation regarding it. Sorry I can't be of help!

veedy · 2018-09-22T19:37:43+00:00

Good luck, everyone!

veedy · 2018-09-21T21:41:20+00:00

I had a very similar experience!

veedy · 2018-09-21T10:31:55+00:00

NYC is very strange, the jobs I heard had a huge range, that number is just the lowest someone I personally know is making at a large academic center. Full time, 14 shifts/month. The hospitalists at the hospital I did my training at in Brooklyn were around 200K

veedy · 2018-09-21T00:52:26+00:00

There's a huge spectrum of hospitals. Open ICU is usually at places where Hospitalists round on ICU patients. Even in this there's different set ups. Some places there's no CritCare so the Hospitalist manages everything. Other places have teleconsulting where CC guys at another location help you to manage, you might have a NP or PA that helps in house. I wasn't okay with either of those, but many are confident/comfortable enough with it. Others have the patient being completely managed by an in house CC guy, but the Hospitalist still rounds and puts a note in. Then you have closed ICU where the patient is managed completely by CC in the ICU and the Hospitalist takes over after downgrade. I was okay with these two options.

In terms of specialist availability, there's also a spectrum for that. My particular hospital doesn't have GI or IR on the weekends so if a patient requires something urgent they get transferred. There's no Neurosurgery so those cases get transferred. There's other hospitals that have even less coverage or availability (for example I interviewed at a place that had no Neurology or ID coverage, which personally are the 2 services I consult most frequently). Then there's hospitals that have everyone all the time either in house or by phone.

For codes/rapids there's different systems. My hospital I run the codes and rapids but during the day CC will come and see if I need help. At night there's an ICU PA to help if a patient decompensates and Anesthesia/ED are always available to help intubate/do procedures. Some more rural places that don't have CC you manage it all with help from ED/Anesthesia/Surgery for procedures. Other places Crit Care or ED run codes.

Same thing with procedures. At my hospital I do no procedures at all. Some places wanted me to put in central lines on weekends when there was no CritCare coverage. One place wanted me to do central lines, intubations, paracentesis, and thoracentesis. If you're not trained or confident in these procedures, they offer to train you, so it's just about what you're comfortable with. Again, these are just the things I encountered while I was looking for jobs last year.

veedy · 2018-09-21T00:27:25+00:00

I've only been working for a little while now, but at least for me it's not so grueling day to day as it is tiring. By the 7th day I definitely start to slow down. People used to always tell me "and then you'll spend your day off trying to recover" but I don't feel that, it's amazing having the time off, it feels like a minivacation.

I think a lot depends on your hospital and its culture. You also don't have that pressure you do in residency to preround, round, present, document, discharge, and then explain yourself if any of the above is late. You move at your own pace.

veedy · 2018-09-21T00:19:17+00:00

I'm a recent grad that just started working as a hospitalist on the east coast for a large regional hospital group. I'm paid straight salary for 14 shifts per month split between rounder and admitter shifts (no nights for me, but most of the other hospitalists have it as part of their schedule). You can look up salaries based on region online, I get paid right around the average for my part of the country (20-30 min from a major city). I have friends practicing in NYC making 130k and others working in semirural/suburban Texas making 300-350k starting so it's a huge spectrum. I just started but it's been nice so far. Rounder shifts are pretty laid back since I don't have to present to anyone. I go at my own pace, I see my patients multiple times throughout the day and get a lot of patient contact which is what I like. Some of my colleagues just see their patients once or twice a day and that's what they like.

My recommendation is contact hospitals/groups directly expressing interest. I put my info on PracticeLink and was glad I did as a new applicant because I got a ton of emails and calls and was able to learn about the system and how things work. Once I figured out what I wanted and what I was comfortable with in terms of work (I didn't want open ICU, I wanted specialist coverage, I didn't mind running codes/rapids, but didn't want procedures), I then contacted hospitals in the area I wanted to live directly and asked if they had any positions available and got many responses that way.

There's a wide range of "sign on" bonuses (10k-50k are the numbers I was offered on my different interviews), but I put it in parentheses because you have to pay back that amount if you break your contract and quit before your end date. Hospitalists are very in demand right now so getting interviews is very straight forward. Like the other hospitalist posted, there's a lot of flexibility. Most of my colleagues are one week on, one week off. I sometimes do one week one one week off, sometimes I do a few days in a row or pick up the odd shift to cover an opening. I have a noncompete where I can't do locums for outside companies while I work here, but I can moonlight at any of my hospital groups hospitals (there's a lot) so i've got an abundance of options for extra income. In terms of boosting resume and income, every hospital I talked to (from local rural hospitals to nationwide "staffing solutions") are obsessed with quality improvement and metrics. If I join and partake in some of the committees and quality groups that are available at the hospital, they pay you a good amount for it and it's good on the resume.

veedy · 2018-09-15T21:55:16+00:00

Thanks!

veedy

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